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Rapper Lil Wayne was scared into quitting his penchant for sipping the Jr., used to get high on the mix of codeine cough syrup and soda, but.

Rapper Lil Wayne was scared into quitting his penchant for sipping the potentially fatal cough medicine drink “syrup” after learning his recent seizures were likely linked to his withdrawal of the drug.

Doctors then diagnosed him with epilepsy after his latest hospitalization on April 30, but his physician quickly learned that the hip-hop star’s body was also shutting down because he was suffering symptoms of withdrawal as he was no longer sipping on syrup.

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“I can’t (drink syrup anymore)… I was doing too much and the doctor kinda told me, ‘We can’t l you what to do, but I suggest that your mom l you to stop.’ She did (l me to stop).”

The performer, real name Dwayne Carter, Jr., used to get high on the mix of codeine cough syrup and soda, but when he suffered a series of collapses earlier this year, he was forced to cut down on his drug of choice.

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Before discovering he suffered from epilepsy, Lil Wayne’s medics had to delve into his family history and it quickly became clear that he wasn’t the only one of his relatives to have the neurological disorder.

He explained, “What we had to do was go back in history, go back to my past… We found out that one of my close cousins suffers from seizures real bad (sic) and one of them actually died from them.”

In an interview on the talk show “Katie,” which aired on Monday, he said, “I asked my doctor and I said, ‘Doctor, I haven’t been drinking like that (a lot), and I haven’t been drinking nowhere near to where you would be catching seizures from it (sic)’, and… he asked what else have you been doing? And I’d been taking pain pills (at the time) and we found out those pain pills consist of codeine as well, so the lack of drinking the codeine the way I did drink it (or taking the pills), it’s kinda like a reaction like you’re stopping a drug…

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Lean With It Rap39s Deadly Dance With Syrup Complex

7/17/2014

04:18 | Author: Hannah Ramirez

Lean With It Rap39s Deadly Dance With Syrup Complex

We haven't heard much from Lil Wayne since he was hospitalized last cough syrup—which contains a highly addictive blend of codeine and.

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Wayne has spoken about sizzurp through his music for many years. His 2007 mixtape classic “I Feel Like Dying” comes to mind: After Karma-Ann Swanepoel’s voice sings the haunting hook “Only once the drugs are gone, I feel like dying,” Wayne drops brutally frank bars about addiction: “Jumpin’ off a mountain into a sea of codeine/I’m at the top of the top but still I climb/And if I should ever fall the ground will then turn to wine/Pop-pop, pop-pop I feel like flyin’/Then I feel like fryin’ then I feel like dyin’.”

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Actavis, the makers of Phenergan-Codeine cough syrup, are And after Lil Wayne's seizures, it would make sense for rappers to be more.

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Lil Wayne News Rapper In Stable Condition After Six Days In ICU

3/15/2014

12:16 | Author: Emily Peterson

Lil Wayne News Rapper In Stable Condition After Six Days In ICU

Six days after being admitted for seizures, Lil Wayne remains in the intensive drank," a concoction that includes prescription-strength cough syrup Lil Wayne's stomach three times after he overdosed on codeine, the key.

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“It's a combination of codeine and promethazine, which is a cough syrup that's commonly prescribed for pneumonia or bronchitis,” he explained.

When celebrities sing the praises of a drug, young people take notice. Parents, many of whom are far removed from rap culture and drug trends, don’t always know what to look for. Here are a few symptoms of cough syrup abuse:

In part, this is because there are a number of hurdles on the path to recovery. Opiate withdrawal symptoms are comparable to a bad flu – shivering, vomiting, diarrhea, muscle and joint pain, insomnia – but worse, users report. Lil Wayne himself told MTV that quitting the syrup “feels like death in your stomach when you stop.” He said, “Everybody wants me to stop all this and all that.